Exotic pets

[Ntypical]

Does anyone in here have any exotic or unusual pets?

Currently we have a subadult female ball python, and a subault female pastel Colombian redtailed boa, along with two 1.3 breeding groups of African Soft Furred Rats we use to breed feeders.

The boa.




The ball.

[nadia]

I had one of these for a whole 5 min, then ma made me give it back



I had one of these



one of these



and these



I also had a gecco, but he died.

The snakes don't live with me anymore because ma hates snake so my mate looks after them for me.

Yay for illegal pets!

[Ntypical]

I'm still a bit new to the world of snakes. So please forgive me. But weren't those berms?

[nadia]

The brown one is a boa and the other two light ones are corn sakes- all of those are illegal in Australia.

[Kathryn_Janeway218]

you wittle wascle

[Ntypical]

Umm. I know I am new to snakes and all. But those are not corn snakes.

Their heads are the wrong shape, are too large bodies differ, and corns do not have heat pits.

This is a Corn (albeit a morph, but only in color).


Now the first snake pic is a normal Colombian. But I have never seen a pattern like that on the "brown" one in your second snake pic on a boa. Sure looks like a Burmese python to me. And color morphs for Burms will run several thousand dollars. So ya may want to think about shipping them over to the US and make four or five grand.

[nadia]

I was only going by what the guy I got them off told me, so shoot me down in flames if I was told the wrong thing.

[Ntypical]

I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to shoot you down in flames.

But there is a major difference in the housing needs between the two. A corn will be lucky to get to six feet in length, a burm can reach 18 to 20 feet. They are probably ok in a smaller (6ft x 3ft x 2ft) enclosure right now. But by the end of their first year they can be seven feet long, and tend to be full grown by four years of age. That is, if they are fed properly.

An adult burm can eat two to three 3 pound rabbits a week. They get pretty expensive.

I don't really know much about the laws in your country, but I believe that you can get a license authorizing you to keep and sell burms. If that is the case then you could make some serious money breeding the two color morphs. A single clutch could throw between 12 and 36 eggs. A sub adult albino can sell for upwards of a grand, and adults can sell for several thousand dollars. And I may be wrong but the two albino's look to be het for Labyrinth. If that is the case then you have two $10,000 breeders right there.

One thing is sure. Find whoever told you that they are corns and smack them in the head, then thank them for selling you a burm for the price of a corn.

[nadia]

Thanks for the advice. I wouldn't sell them though, even though I don't see them much I love them. And I didn't have to pay for any of them lol.

[Ntypical]

Ok cool. You may think about getting that license though, even though you don't want to sell them, a female burm can throw two clutces a year (though most "experts" agree that you are better off keeping them at one clutch a year) if you have the proper hibernation cycles. So say two of those are females, and you find someone that is willing to breed their albino to yours, you are looking at an extra twenty to thirty thousand dollars a year from selling the babies. And even if all of them are males, you can still make an extra three or four grand by breeding them to someones females.

From looking at their body dimensions they are about what? Four months old? Fed and housed properly they can reach breeding size inside of two and a half years.

I am waiting on a call from a breeder friend of mine in Aus, he is going to give me the information on how to go about obtaining a proper license.